We are doing a very interesting collaborative project with Mr. Webb’s class, Room Three, Auroa Primary School, Taranaki, New Zealand. We are comparing Irish proverbs and proverbs from New Zealand. You can see the work Mr. Webb’s class is doing HERE. We are going to compare their proverbs with ours and see the similarities and differences. Click on THIS LINK to see the work we have done so far.

Mr. Webb asked us to record the proverbs in the Irish language, so his students could hear them being spoken. We work in a ‘shared area’ in a very busy room and it is hard to record. However before the Halloween break we got received a really useful hint telling us about the speech synthesizer at ABAIR:

You can find Abair.tcd.ie HERE . We wrote Irish proverbs into the box on this page and Abair.tcd.ie produced a sound recording of it.

It was interesting and easy to use. Many thanks to Aonghus for that advice.

Here are the sound recordings we made of the Irish proverbs we had chosen:

A country without a language is a country without a soul (Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam)

We used this tool from ‘fun effects’ on pho.to.com , the photo editor befunky.com to turn the picture into a sketch and also the graphic design website canva.com to provide a background with text and WE HAD FUN !

In class we NEVER translate Irish into English and perhaps the picture could help you guess what it means, but as we are doing this for our friends in New Zealand, we will tell you that it means A (true) friend’s eye is a good mirror.

We used pho.to.com to turn an old photograph of a painting into an ‘oilpainting’, the photo editor befunky.com to add the graphics of the apples and the worm and also the graphic design website canva.com to create the cow from different shapes and a background with text. We enjoyed doing this.

In class we NEVER EVER translate Irish into English and perhaps the picture could help you guess what this proverbs means, but as we are doing this for our friends in New Zealand, we will tell you that it means ‘Everyone is good humoured until a cow gets into their orchard.’ Many Irish proverbs come from a time when raising animals and growing your own food was very important.

We used pho.to.com to turn an old photograph of a painting into an ‘oilpainting’, the photo editor befunky.com to add the graphics of the small animal and the bird and also the graphic design website canva.com to create a background with text. We enjoyed doing this.

In class we NEVER EVER translate Irish into English and perhaps the picture could help you guess what this proverbs means, but as we are doing this for our friends in New Zealand, we will tell you that it means ‘He who is not strong needs to be clever.’

We used pho.to.com to turn an old photograph of a painting into an ‘oilpainting’ and the graphic design website canva.com to create a background with text. This was the first proverb we illustrated for a project we are doing.

In class we NEVER translate Irish into English. Can you guess what this proverbs means from the picture? What could it be about? As we are doing this for our friends in New Zealand, we will tell you that it means ‘The day of rain is not a day for children.’ We like the way this turned out.

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